Archives for September 2005

The European Commission today unveiled its strategy to make Europe’s written and audiovisual heritage available on the Internet. Turning Europe’s historic and cultural heritage into digital content will make it usable for European citizens for their studies, work or leisure and will give innovators, artists and entrepreneurs the raw material that they need. The Commission … [Read more...]

It looks like Steve Matthews gave a good talk at the Vancouver Association of Law Libraries on Blogs.The topic of the latest meeting was RSS Feeds and Blogs. Steve's was the third of 3 good presentations:Joanne Lecky, Reference Librarian at Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP - Presentation "Defining Blogs and RSS Feeds" is available hereChristina Zeller, Information Specialist at … [Read more...]

The European Commission has published the final report of its sector inquiry into the licensing of sports rights to 3G mobile networks. The Commission concluded that a separate market existed for sports content over 3G networks, than from that provided by TV sports services. The Commission's preliminary results highlighted a number of competition concerns in the market. The … [Read more...]

I have posted before on the subject of Channel 4 (and E4's) quite blatant disregard for Ofcom's Rules on the Amount and Distribution of Advertising with its broadcasts of the excellent US drama Lost; and watching tonight it seems that the Channel has no intention of changing its policy to have 3 ad breaks during the programme (shouldn't have more than 2) and to follow the … [Read more...]

I see Rollyo - the 'roll your own' search engine is up and running in beta at last. Looks fun. Time to play. Gary Price has set up a Rollyo, as has actress Debra Messing - if you believe the site. Anyway have created a Telecoms Rollyo … [Read more...]